Many obesity-associated SNPs strongly associate with DNA methylation changes at proximal promoters and enhancers

Genome Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Voisin, Sarah ^a   Almén, Markus Sällman ^a   Zheleznyakova, Galina Y ^a   Lundberg, Lina ^a   Zarei, Sanaz ^a   Castillo, Sandra ^a   Eriksson, Fia Ence ^a   Nilsson, Emil K ^a   Blüher, Matthias ^b   Böttcher, Yvonne ^b   Kovacs, Peter ^b   Klovins, Janis ^c   Rask Andersen, Mathias ^a   Schiöth, Helgi B ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^c LATVIAN BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH AND STUDY CENTRE   (Latvia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CYTOSINE; DNA; SULFOTRANSFERASE 1A1;

ADCY3 GENE; ADULT; AGRN GENE; ALLELE; APOBR GENE; ARTICLE; ATXN2L GENE; BDNF GENE; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLN3 GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; ELP4 GENE; ENHANCER REGION; FEMALE; GENE; GENE REPLICATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC REGULATION; GENOTYPE; HOXC12 GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IL27 GENE; IMMP1L GENE; INTRAABDOMINAL FAT; ITIH4 GENE; LGR4 GENE; MALE; MAP2K5 GENE; MGAT1 GENE; MIR148A GENE; MIR4721 GENE; NR1H3 GENE; OBESITY; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PMAIP1 GENE; POMC GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PSIP1 GENE; PTPMT1 GENE; RPS10 GENE; RPS10 NUDT3 GENE; SCGB3A1 GENE; SEMA3G GENE; SH2B1 GENE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SIX5 GENE; SKIN FIBROBLAST; SKOR1 GENE; SPNS1 GENE; SSPN GENE; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; SULT1A1 GENE; SULT1A2 GENE; TUFM GENE; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADOLESCENT; AGED; BLOOD; BRAIN; FIBROBLAST; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; YOUNG ADULT;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALLELES; BRAIN; CPG ISLANDS; DNA METHYLATION; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; FEMALE; FIBROBLASTS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84943524028     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1756994X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13073-015-0225-4     Document Type: Article

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